Car-heater



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. H. E. PRBESE.

GAR HEATER. No. 325,796. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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. H. E. PREESE.

' CAR HEATER.

No. 325,796. Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

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HARRY E. FREESE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-HEATER.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,796, dated September 8, 1885.

Application filed March 1-1, 1885. (N0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY E. FREEsE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Heaters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a car,showing engine appliances and steam heating pipes or radiators embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a detail plan of heatingpipes.

My invention has relation to that form of motor, driving, and other appliances for propelling and lighting street or other cars as described in an application filed by me of an even date herewith, and also in application filed by F. G. Freese on February 17, 1885; and it has for its object to utilize the exhauststeam for heating purposes, and to provide a noiseless escape for the exhaust-steam, and also to simplicity and compactness of parts.

My invention accordingly consists of the combination, construction, and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed, having reference particularly to a car having an engine with preferably an oil-vapor-fuel supply, a system of heating or radiator pipes having connection at one end with the exhaust-pipe of the engine and at the other with a condenser, and having suitable valves for directing the flow of steam through the radiators and condenser or through the latter only.

In the drawings, A represents a street or other car having an apartment, a, in which is placed an engine, B, having boiler b, pr0- vided with oil-supply tank b for feeding an oil-vapor fuel to the furnace-burner or firebox of said boiler, as desired.

This engine may be in gear with one of the car-axles for propelling the car, as shown in the above first-named application, or otherwise, as desired, and also with an electric generator, 0, having belt-pressure appliance ora lever, O, and lamp or light circuit 0 for electrically lighting the car, as fully set forth in said last-named application.

The exhaust-steam pipe 1 of the engine is By closing one and opening the other of 6c cocks d and e, the exhaust steam is either directed into the radiator or pipes E, as indicated by arrows 1 1, Fig. 2, and from thence into the condenser, or passes directly into the condenser, as indicated by arrows w, in said last-named figure. In either case such steam must pass through the condenser before it escapes into the open air, and by suitably proportioning and constructing the condenser such exhaust has a noiseless escape therefrom.

The radiator pipes E are also connected at E (see Fig. 1.) to the boiler b for obtaining, when desired, a supply of live steam forheating purposes.

The condensation in radiator-pipes may be from time to time blown out through the condenser by using the live-steam pressure in the boiler, or passed off by way of the drip-cocks e.

\Vhat I claim is 1. The combination, with a railway-car, of

, also with the condenser, and valves (1 and e for the exhaust and radiator pipes, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a car, the combination of engine B, having exhaust-pipe (l, with valve (6, condenser D, and steam-heating pipes E, having valve 0, and connected at one end to exhaustpipe (2 of engine-boiler and at the other to condenser D, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- i'IIARRY E. FREESE.

Witnesses:

S. J. VAN STAVOREN, (Jr-ms. F. VAN Honn. 

